Vikings’ Bridgewater cleared for practice.

Teddy Bridgewater has been cleared to rejoin the Minnesota Vikings for practice, roughly 14 months after a dislocation and multiple ligament tears in his left knee put his leg and career at risk.

Coach Mike Zimmer said Bridgewater will be eased back in with the team beginning Wednesday.

“We’re not going to dose him out,” Zimmer said Monday, after the 24year-old quarterback visited his surgeon, Dan Cooper at the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, and was given the green light to participate.

Bridgewater tweeted a simple “thank you” after getting the good news, effectively ending a grueling rehabilitation over the past yearplus.

When his knee buckled during a routine drop-back drill in a preseason practice on Aug. 30, 2016, the Vikings were devastated and the course of the franchise was altered significantly.

Director of sports medicine and athletic trainer Eric Sugarman was credited for his fast action in saving Bridgewater from potential amputation due to the nerve damage that occurred during the massive injury.

“It’s a great deal for Teddy,” said Zimmer, who has been especially fond of the player the Vikings drafted with the final pick in the first round of the draft in 2014 a few months after Zimmer was hired. “We’ll take it one day at a time just like we have the last 14 months.”

Bowman joins Raiders: NaVorro Bowman will make a short move following his release from the San Francisco 49ers after signing a oneyear, $3 million contract with the Oakland Raiders.

Bowman, 29, visited the Raiders on Monday and then signed the deal shortly after that. He went right into meetings with the assistant coaches and could be ready to play when the Raiders host the first-place Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night.

Bowman was released on his request Friday after seven-plus seasons with the 49ers. San Francisco had tried to trade him but ended up releasing him instead so Bowman could pick his next team.

Meeting set: National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell, owners of each team, representatives of the players’ union and players themselves will meet Tuesday to discuss ways to “move from protest to progress.”

Among the topics will be enhancing their platforms for speaking out on social issues, and the league’s policy that suggests but does not mandate players standing for the national anthem.

There is a quiet mandate, though, for those discussions: figuring out how to get the attention back on those social issues, not how they are being publicized.

And getting the attention back on football.